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Lilith (1964)
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, their relationship deepens and intensifies, and the differences between them begin to blur, leading to a shocking, but oddly logical conclusion.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sexual, suspense, retro, social, surreal, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
mental illness, hospital, schizophrenia, incest, fall in love, couples, sex addict, mentally unstable, obsession, love and romance, femme fatale, doctors and patients, mental disorder, passion, psychiatry, jealousy, psychology, psychiatric ward, forbidden love, unrequited love, lesbian sex, brother sister incest, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, time travel, psychopath ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
usa, maryland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and emotional films with plots about mental illness, mental institution, family relations, psychiatric hospital, hospital, couples and psychology mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Lilith: Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), David and Lisa (1962), Ordinary People (1980), The Caretakers (1963), Waking Madison (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
model, photographer, fashion, mental illness, fashion model, fashion industry, psychiatrist, paranoia, mental breakdown, modeling, lesbian, suicide ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, paris france, jamaica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, spiritual ...
Plot:
mental illness, multiple personality disorder, angst, mental disorder, insanity, schizophrenia, mental institution, teenage love, coming of age, young lovers, psychiatric hospital, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
medical, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric hospital, nurse, medicine, psychiatric ward, kitchen sink realism, psychopath, power relations, disability, kids in trouble ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, mental disorder, psychiatrist, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, family relations, love affair, friendship, parents and children, couples, unfulfillment, psychiatry, self mutilation, psychological disorder, mental health ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These ...
Style:
slasher, deep, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
flashback, car accident, college, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, teacher student relationship, adulterous husband, university professor, dog, unrequited love, university student, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
oxford university, europe, england, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, psychological, controversial, psychiatric ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, psychology, mental health, hospital, women, mental disorder, nervous breakdown, female psychopath, psychotherapy, social commentary, psychiatrist ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1956, 1950s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Style:
sexy, meditative, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
incest, intimate, sex scene, female nudity, penetration, real sex, sexual content, strong sexual content, unsimulated sex, sex, existentialism, femme fatale ...
Time:
year 1999, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, germany, europe, normandy
Similarity:
11%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, older sister, religion, insanity, psychology, nordic, existentialism, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, illness, spirituality ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry..
Style:
black and white, social, retro, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, christmas, passionate kiss, adolescence, drug addiction, bus, beat generation, siblings, age-gap relationship, pregnancy, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ohio, florida, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
21%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, independent film, depressing, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, depression, self harm, addiction, mental health, manic, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, psychological, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
sexual content, infidelity, psychiatry, skinny dipping, intern, relationships, culture clash, music business, lesbian, music, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, mental health, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental disorder, ptsd, illness, suicidal, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Style:
independent film, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, women, friendship, chase, dysfunctional family, nervous breakdown, lgbt, lgbtq, depression, forbidden love, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
boston, new jersey, san francisco, california, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, erotic, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, sexual relations, sex scene, adultery, crimes of passion, mother son relationship, son, older woman younger man, murder, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, europe, new york, spain, peru ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
erotic, touching, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, female masturbation, adolescence, dysfunctional family, coming of age, redemption, family relations, parents and children, introspection, fall in love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1971, 70s ...
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, best friend, family relations, filmmaking, infidelity, showbiz, hollywood, lgbt, alienation, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, las vegas, beverly hills, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, haunted by the past, estrangement, life is a bitch, wrongfully committed, dysfunctional family, homecoming, dull life, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, oedipus complex ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Style:
psychological, serious, talky, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, philosopher, doctors and patients, prodigy, downfall, obsession, losing-it hero, introspection, intern, writers, philosophy, psychotherapy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Style:
retro, biting, cynical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
writers, psychiatrist, mental illness, adultery, writer's block, housewife, sexual attraction, voyeur, psychopath, 007, poet, estrangement ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, mindfuck, transgressive
Plot:
schizophrenia, going straight, mental illness, sibling relationship, friendship, haunted by the past, insanity, brother sister relationship, hippie, addiction, paranoid schizophrenia, psychological disorder ...
Place:
germany, spain, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style:
sexy, serious, talky, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
dogme 95, mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dogma, real world, dysfunctional family, human nature, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, happy ending, losing-it hero, midlife crisis, mental disorder, dysfunctional family, psychology, family drama, mental health, coping, cheerleader ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past, couples, destructive relationship, human nature, rivalry, youth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friendship, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
songwriter, schizophrenia, record producer, medication, mental disorder, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, music, musician's life, schizophrenic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
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